Zachary Pierce
Principal Software Engineer at Ford Motor Company
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZachary Pierce is a Principal Software Engineer with 15+ years building high-performance, fault-tolerant systems across cloud computing, autonomous vehicles, education, and scientific research. He blends hands-on implementation—such as contributing Rust code generation for the well-regarded Simple Binary Encoding project—with architecting distributed designs and operational ownership for large-scale services. Zachary has repeatedly driven reliability and performance improvements in production, from NoSQL datastores and streaming analytics to safety-critical vehicle infrastructure and EV systems. He’s equally comfortable leading teams and shipping individual-contributor work, prioritizing healthy team practices that accelerate delivery. His background in formal methods, property-based testing, and embedded Rust gives him a distinctive edge in producing compile-time assurances and high-assurance systems. Based in Seattle, he combines rigorous engineering discipline with a practical bent for documentation, observability, and pragmatic open-source collaboration.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Engineering Japanese, Bachelor's Degree Engineering Japanese at Dartmouth CollegeCandidate for Master of Science Nanotechnology Innovation Information Tech Biomedical Engineering, Candidate for Master of Science Nanotechnology Innovation Information Tech Biomedical Engineering at Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth
English, Japanese, Latin
Github Skills (9)
code-generation10
rust10
encoder-decoder10
codec9
cprogramming-language9
c-language9
java7
javas7
golang5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
aeron-io/simple-binary-encoding
Jul 2017 - Jun 2018
Simple Binary Encoding (SBE) - High Performance Message Codec
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 7 PRs, 11 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Zachary primarily contributed to the implementation of Rust code generation tools within the repository. They focused on generating code for simple binary encoding (SBE) messages, including encoders, decoders, and utility structures. Their work involved adding features like support for constant fields, bitsets, and group representations. Furthermore, they refactored the codebase by removing dependencies and improving the documentation of the generated code.
golangsbecodecc-plus-plusbinary-encoding
PolySync/cargo-culture
Mar 2018 - Jul 2018
Automatic Rust project convention checks
Contributions:44 commits, 13 PRs, 17 pushes in 4 months
kebab-casesariflicensingcreditrust
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